John's Salvage Co in Sequin TX plus other PICS. Sat Road Tripping!

Hi Gang. I think you folks are going to get a real kick out of these pics. First, as always, the story.

Dad and I jumped in the Roady wagon early yesterday and headed about an hour and a half southeast of Austin to just about my favorite salvage yard for old car parts searching, John's Salvage Company in Seguin Texas.
I went down there to find an exhaust manifold for my buddy Mitch's 76 DeVille...but also to go marvel at all the cars John's has.

He does not crush cars, and has stuff going back the at least the 1930's. Sadly we went about a month late, as the spring vines and shrubs are covering a lot of the cars. In the winter you can see them all. But I think you'll get the idea.

This is what you see on Fox Trotter Road as you approach the office at John's:

And pulling up to the classic car nut's version of Disneyland:

To start, here is what we went for:


When we got there, John told us to go to the "Manifold Bus" and see if we could find a manifold already off. We walked out the door to find row after row of old school buses jam-packed with parts. One was full of carburetors, one full of hubcaps, one full of tail lights, and one full of exhaust manifolds...and I mean FULL. Dad and I spent about 5-mins looking and all the manifolds and then started laughing. You could spend DAYS searching through there and not find the right manifold.






We walked back over to the office to suggest we go look in the Cadillac's and pull one off a car, and one of the old guys in the office sighs, gets up and says "Come On" and walks out the door. He walks into the manifold bus, and no joke, comes out less than a minute later with this:

We set the broken manifold next to the one he came out with, and it was a perfect match. Dad and I were both shocked. The old guy just smiled and said "All you had to dowas look". :lol:
So now that the "chore" was over, Dad and I walked down the hill into the yard to take in the sights. Ready to go? Here is what we came to first. Need a perfect hood for your 57 Chevy?

Moving on, your come to transmission land.

Followed by engine land, with some neat cars in the background. Check out the 65 Impala SS with the front end falling off!

You wanna be Starsky, or Hutch?

It's the Deathmobile from Animal House

I freaking LOVE 1st gen Toronados!

1958 Chevy 4dr hardtop

Couple big Oldsmobiles


Couple 70's-era Cutlass

 

Olds Dynamic 88

Very picked over 69 Cutlass

68 Olds Cutlass Wagon

Dodge trucks

Cool Dodge Truck Emblem

Plymouth Belvedere

Dodge Polara

Toyota Land Cruiser on 70's Dodge Tradesman

Row of classic Chevy trucks

Now how many headlights do you really need?

Wood-sided Country Squire wagon

Turbo Corvair Monza Spyder on top of the stack

Another Corvair Monza, not a turbo, but solid!

Stacked Ford Fairlane's

4dr hardtop Corvair and 68 Firebird shell in the background

A TON more Corvairs and a 70's Buick Centurion 2dr hardtop

Hey Dude it's a Stude!

I spy a 2dr Citation...ha!

Grand Prix and Malibu wagon in front of stacked classic Chevys

Very complete Laguna S-3 with a 58 Chevy on it's back

 

67 Firebird with some big fender flares

Lincoln

Kojak Bang-Bang!

Monte Carlo

Two 79 Buicks...parts for me!


Stacked Chevys


61 Chevy

60 Chevys


Stacked Pontiacs...very solid Tempest on top

Batwing 59 Chevy

It's KITT! I wondered what happened to him!

More stacked Chevys



Neat old Pontiac


1955 Pontiac

 

1952 Olds

60 Buick 4dr hardtop and Oldsmobiles in the background

Very worn Z-28

Hey another X-car...and look at the grill on this Buick! SHARP!


Gorgeous 57 Oldsmobile




56 Plymouth

1940 Buick

 

I'll let these pics speak for themselves...

















Nearly totally complete Hudson Hornet


Smiling Buick

 

59 Edsel


Ford Town Sedan


DeSoto

Corvair Van

58? Ford


Cadillacs



Valient and Polara

Neat Plymouth Wagon

Imperial

Valient with 69 Charger behind it

Just cool. Check out that Chrysler lettering

Rambler Wagon


Hey it's Harry Potter!!

Big woody Caprice wagon

 

It's weird, it's orange, it's SAAB!

71 Lemans and 74 Firebird

Stacked Pontiacs - Firebirds behind Sunbird Turbo ragtop



67 Catalina and late 70's GP

Another Tempest

Wow...GTO

Another 67 Poncho and a 69 GP

More stacked Pontiacs. Firebird on top

69 LeMans 2dr hardtop

Neat old 5-window Chevy

El Camino!

Check out the bumper on that Buick. 2dr hardtop too

Cool T-Bird

C3 Corvette stacked

T-Birds

63 Chevy Wagon

65 Impala SS stacked

Inside the office/shop

 

And outside the shop.

55 Chevy Sedan


Ford

Toys!

Impala 2dr hardtop

VERY SOLID Buick sedan

Fords





I "think" this is a Plymouth. 2dr hardtop. Neat!

Another solid 55 Pontiac


Mercury Comet

Plymouth

Falcon

57 Ford Ranchero

 

Very sharp Imperial


Ok that was John's....keeping in mind we never walked down the 60's Mustang row or the AMC row. Will do those next time.

Place is AWESOME and if you have the chance, go walk through it!

-Mike

 

From John's we decided to head down to San Antonio and hit some yards down there. On the way, we stopped in downtown Seguin to see the World's Largest Pecan! :lol:

 

On to San Antonio for some afternoon Pick-N-Pull yarding. Not "classic's" like John's, but some good pickin! Was DUSTY down in San Antonio. MAN they need rain!

Roady wagon



LT1 Sedan

Monte Carlo LS

Chevy with familier colors!

95 LT1 Roady.

Very complete G-body Cutlass

And Cutlass Wagon

Kicking myself here. This GP had all four 15x7 Rally II wheels. They were only $9.99 each....and I didn't nab them! Stupid!

More Roady Sedans

 

VERY CLEAN and SOLID 91 Olds Custom Cruiser. I got my exhaust heat shield off this car.









Another Roady Sedan

Very complete and solid Cutlass.


Burned Roady Sedan. Ouch!



Another G-body Cutlass

LeSabre Sport Coupe

Solid 78 Caddy

9C1 Caprice

 

Pick-N-Pull has an entire Caprice/Impala Section...sadly this is where the batteries in my camera died.


Really a Fun Day! I ended up getting the 76 Caddy exhaust manifold, the exhaust heat shield for my Roady wagon, and a perfect passenger front door panel speaker/door handle trim piece.
Headed back north to Austin and got home about 6:30. Parked my very dusty Roady wagon, said by to my father, popped the T-tops off the Cutlass and loaded my wife and the kids in the Cutty and went to the Sat evening cruise-in.

If you've not had your fill of pics, I'm posting those in the Events section next.

Needless to say that was a LONG day, but a good one!

-Mike

 

Wow Mike, what a great bunch of photos. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

 

It looks like most are complete, do they not save smashed cars?